You may recall one of Dan Akroyd’s characters from Saturday Night Live back in the 1970’s, Fred Garvin: Male Prostitute.

To honor college football’s finest male prostitutes, we have the Male Prostitute Hall-of-Shame. 

To qualify for selection to the Male Prostitute Hall-of-Shame, college coaches must display the following characteristics over their careers:

• Short stops (2-3 years) at a school
• Accept coaching positions that either moves them from Division 1AA or a lesser Division 1A program to successively bigger Division 1A programs, culminating in a job at a BCS school or as a coach of an NFL team.
• Each stop along the way significantly improves their financial compensation package.
• They utter statements such as, “I’m here to stay” or denying rumors in the media by repeatedly denying the rumors adamantly stating "I'm not going to be the XXXX coach.”
• Taking their next job after their current teams makes it to a bowl game, but before the bowl game is actually played.  
• Be involved in controversy (recruiting violations, discipline problems, secret newsletters, NCAA probation, etc).
• Succeeded at the collegiate level but failed in the NFL.

These coaches are the antithesis of coaches such as Bobby Bowden (31 years) and Joe Paterno (42 years) who are known for longevity as their schools.  Though some fans may feel that these two coaches may have overstayed their welcome, these are two gentlemen who put their college football programs on the map and became synonymous with their schools.  

Wouldn’t you rather be known as “Coach Z" who built the program at the "U of X”?  Or would you rather be the coach at a major program where you will probably never live up to the legend of some coach who was there before you?  

So, without further adieu, here is the Class of 2007 in reverse order: 

5.  Urban Meyer – Coach Meyer barely qualifies for the Hall, but since 5 sounded like a good number, he’s included here to complete the set.  Makes one wonder if he could have built the Utes into a MWC powerhouse.  

Football Teams - Bowling Green (2 years), Utah (2 years), Florida (3 years)

4.  Dennis Franchione – Coach Fran is eminently qualified for the Hall.  Just ask any Alabama fan.  Plus, with that newsletter of his, he’s no stranger to controversy.

Football Teams - Southwest Texas State (1AA) (2 years), New Mexico (6 years), TCU (3 years), Alabama (2 years), Texas A&M (5 years) 

3.  Steve Spurrier – The “Old Ball Coach” was a touch choice, as we’ll never really know if it was money or boredom that led to his departure from Florida.

Football Teams -Tampa Bay Bandits (USFL) (3 years), Duke (3 years), Florida (12 years), Washington Redskins (NFL) (2 years), South Carolina (3 years)  

2.  Nick Saban – Though his stays at schools have gotten longer (5 years at MSU and LSU), Coach Saban took the money and ran for the NFL.  Failing at that, he high-tailed it back to the college ranks to restore some of the luster to the anemic Crimson Tide program.  This is one coach who is no stranger to controversy!

Football Teams - Toledo (1 year), Michigan State (5 years), LSU (5 years), Miami Dolphins (NFL) (2 years), Alabama (1 year)

1.  Dennis Erickson – The King of the Male Prostitutes.  Erickson readily admitted (during his tenure at OSU) to prostituting himself in his earlier days.  However, when the opportunity arose, he left OSU and returned to the NFL.  He really had to see if he was a better pro coach then his earlier stop in Seattle demonstrated.  Failing for a second time in the NFL, he took a year off before returning to the University of Idaho, only to leave after one year when Arizona State showered him with $$$$. 

Football Teams - Idaho (1AA) (4 years), Wyoming (1 year), Washington State (2 years), Miami (6 years), Seattle Seahawks (NFL) (3 years), Oregon State (4 years), San Francisco 49ers (NFL) (2 years), Idaho (1 year), Arizona State (1 year)

 NOTE:  Only Division 1AA/1A and professional coaching jobs are listed.